Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	2380522.0 Ops/sec
trim	13571570.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests: